About

Biography: Ronnie Griffon

• Ronnie grew up in Ohio and was the 2nd of 5 kids

• Lived away from home at age 10 to help supplement the family income

• Was responsible for the family milk cow, Bossie

• 100% self taught on piano and baritone

• Excelled on clarinet & tried out for the symphony at 17

• Graduated from Kent State University in 1972

• Was at Kent State during the May 1970 riots

• Performed in the KSU Circus on trapeze & cloud swing

• F/A with AA in the 1970’s

• Masters of Science from Troy University, Troy, Alabama

• Taught Kindergarten & college instructor

• Have been to 6 of 7 continents

• 15 missions trips: Zambia, Kenya, Guatemala, New Zealand and 11 trips

  to Brazil in the Amazon River Territories

• Through The Lord, began a haircutting ministry in the Amazon.....

• NO formal training (the ministry is in full gear to this day)

• Have cut nearly 1,300 heads of hair in the Amazon

• Have gone alligator hunting in the Amazon

• Seriously close encounter (within an inch) with a Black Mamba in Kenya

• Served on a team with “Hug It Forward” building a “Bottle School” in Guatemala (check it out on YouTube)

• Member of the “Tog & Towel Society” in New Zealand (swim in the ocean when the air temperature is below freezing)

• Hero: saved the life of a woman in San Fransisco from getting run over by a downhill trolley car; a young passenger was passing out & gave him oxygen (he had Sickle Cell Anemia); a 225 lb. panicking man in the deep end of a swimming pool (he only spoke Italian); a 76 year old woman who lost consciousness choking on food.....no pulse.....performed CPR and brought her to her feet

• No children, but had a small parrot, Dexter, who lived to be nearly 28 years old; Kitties: Jingles & Clyde (both deceased), Buddy & Charlie

• Married to Bob; lives in Carrollton, TX

• Began painting at 30 years old

• Introduced to Fluid Art in 2017, but only began these techniques in 2020

• Adventuresome: Skydiving, 1,000 feet parasailing in Hawaii, swam

  open water with sharks